Tenth Biennial Report of the State Engineer to the Governor of Colorado: For the Years 1899 and 1900 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Tenth Biennial Report of the State Engineer to the Governor of Colorado: For the Years 1899 and 1900

The Twelfth General Assembly made a much larger num ber Of appropriations than any previous assembly. This eu tailed upon this Office an extra amount of work without pro viding any additional assistance; we were consequently com pelled to neglect work connected with irrigation and the study of water questions of much importance to the state. Arrangements were made, however, with Mr. A. L. Fellows, now resident hydrographer of the United States geological survey, who, as deputy state engineer, conducted the stream measurements during the year 1898, to continue that work for this department. It is fortunate that this co-operation of the hydrographic branch of the geological survey has been secured. The state is under great obligations to Professor F. H. Newell for this arrangement, as the data obtained is of immense value and is increasing in importance each year. With the limited means at its disposal it would be impossible for this Office to carry on any systematic stream measure ments. During the past two years there have been 562 ditch filings, with a capacity of second feet, and 147 reser voir filings, with a capacity of cubic feet. By comparison with the two previous reports of this office the above shows a gradual decrease, which is, of course, natural. Yet the filings are not much of an index of the development in this line, as it is well known that on many of the streams of the state the water is already over-appropriated except for storage purposes. An increased number of the appropria tions are for seepage and waste. This is an encouraging feat ure, indicating that much of the water supposed to be lost is becoming available for new lands.

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